VOLUME VI

Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge MCMI

Copyright, 1901 by Houghton, Mifflin and Company All Rights Reserved

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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XLIII. Declining Health of Charles, Duke of Buccleuch. -- Letter on the Death of Queen Charlotte. -- Provincial Antiquities, etc. -- Extensive Sale of Copyrights to Constable & Co. -- Death of Mr. Charles Carpenter. -- Scott accepts the Offer of a Baronetcy. -- He declines to renew his Application for a Seat on the Exchequer Bench. -- Letters to Morritt, Richardson, Miss Baillie, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Montagu, and Captain Ferguson. -- Rob Roy played at Edinburgh. -- Letter from Jedediah Cleishbotham to Mr. Charles Mackay. 1818-1819 1

XLIV. Recurrence of Scott's Illness. -- Death of the Duke of Buccleuch. -- Letters to Captain Ferguson, Lord Montagu, Mr. Southey, and Mr. Shortreed. -- Scott's Sufferings while dictating The Bride of Lammermoor. -- Anecdotes by James Ballantyne, etc. -- Appearance of the Third Series of Tales of my Landlord. -- Anecdote of the Earl of Buchan. 1819 24

XLV. Gradual Reëstablishment of Scott's Health. -- Ivanhoe in Progress. -- His Son Walter joins the Eighteenth Regiment of Hussars. -- Scott's Correspondence with his Son. -- Miscellaneous Letters to Mrs. Maclean Clephane, M. W. Hartstonge, J. G. Lockhart, John Ballantyne, John Richardson, Miss Edgeworth, Lord Montagu, etc. -- Abbotsford visited by Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. -- Death of Mrs. William Erskine. 1819 69

XLVI. Political Alarms. -- The Radicals. -- Levies of Volunteers. -- Project of the Buccleuch Legion. -- Death of Scott's Mother, her Brother Dr. Rutherford, and her Sister Christian. -- Letters to Lord Montagu, Mr. Thomas Scott, Cornet Scott, Mr. Laidlaw, and Lady Louisa Stuart. -- Publication of Ivanhoe. 1819 106

XLVII. The Visionary. -- The Peel of Darnick. -- Scott's Saturday Excursions to Abbotsford. -- A Sunday there in February. -- Constable. -- John Ballantyne. -- Thomas Purdie, etc. -- Prince Gustavus Vasa. -- Proclamation of King George IV. -- Publication of The Monastery. 1820 132

XLVIII. Scott revisits London. -- His Portrait by Lawrence, and Bust by Chantrey. -- Anecdotes by Allan Cunningham. -- Letters to Mrs. Scott, Laidlaw, etc. -- His Baronetcy gazetted. -- Marriage of his Daughter Sophia. -- Letter to "the Baron of Galashiels." -- Visit of Prince Gustavus Vasa at Abbotsford. -- Tenders of Honorary Degrees from Oxford and Cambridge. -- Letter to Mr. Thomas Scott. 1820 147

XLIX. Autumn at Abbotsford. -- Scott's Hospitality. -- Visit of Sir Humphry Davy, Henry Mackenzie, Dr. Wollaston, and William Stewart Rose. -- Coursing on Newark Hill. -- Salmon-fishing. -- The Festival at Boldside. -- The Abbotsford Hunt. -- The Kirn, etc. 1820 172

L. Publication of The Abbot. -- The Blair-Adam Club. -- Kelso, Walton Hall, etc. -- Ballantyne's Novelists' Library. -- Acquittal of Queen Caroline. -- Service of the Duke of Buccleuch. -- Scott elected President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. -- The Celtic Society. -- Letters to Lord Montagu, Cornet Scott, Charles Scott, Allan Cunningham, etc. -- Kenilworth published. 1820-1821 189

LI. Visit to London. -- Project of the Royal Society of Literature. -- Affairs of the 18th Hussars. -- Marriage of Captain Adam Ferguson. -- Letters to Lord Sidmouth, Lord Montagu, Allan Cunningham, Mrs. Lockhart, and Cornet Scott. 1821 219

LII. Illness and Death of John Ballantyne. -- Extract from his Pocketbook. -- Letters from Blair-Adam. -- Castle-Campbell. -- Sir Samuel Shepherd. -- "Bailie Mackay," etc. -- Coronation of George IV. -- Correspondence with James Hogg and Lord Sidmouth. -- Letter on the Coronation. -- Anecdotes. -- Allan Cunningham's Memoranda. -- Completion of Chantrey's Bust. 1821 241

LIII. Publication of Mr. Adolphus's Letters on the Authorship of Waverley. 1821 267

LIV. New Buildings at Abbotsford. -- Chiefswood. -- William Erskine. -- Letter to Countess Purgstall. -- Progress of The Pirate. -- Franck's Northern Memoir, and Notes of Lord Fountainhall, published. -- Private Letters in the Reign of James I. -- Commencement of The Fortunes of Nigel. -- Second Sale of Copyrights. -- Contract for "Four Works of Fiction." -- Enormous Profits of the Novelist, and Extravagant Projects of Constable. -- The Pirate published. -- Lord Byron's Cain, dedicated to Scott. -- Affair of the Beacon Newspaper. 1821 288

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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WALTER SCOTT IN 1820 _Frontispiece_ From the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P. R. A., in the Royal Gallery, Windsor Castle.

CHARLES MACKAY AS BAILIE NICOL JARVIE 22 From the painting by Sir D. Macnee, P. R. S. A., in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.

ANNE RUTHERFORD, MOTHER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT 106 After the painting at Abbotsford.

SOPHIA SCOTT (Mrs. J. G. LOCKHART) 136 After the painting at Abbotsford by William Nicholson, R. S. A.

WALTER SCOTT IN 1820 150 From the pencil sketch by Sir Francis Chantrey, R. A.

CHIEFSWOOD 288 After the drawing by J. M. W. Turner, R. A.

SIR WALTER SCOTT